C&NW #8010 EMD SD60 Locomotive

I received my first diesel freight locomotive in the mail yesterday and it is an Atlas Master Line Chicago & North Western #8010. The #8010 was built in August 1986 and then renumbered to Union Pacific #5974 on April 23rd 1997. It was retired from Union Pacific on January 4th 2002 and I am curretnly unsure where it ended up after that.

I purchased my model from a hobby shop I remember as a kid growing up. Lombard Hobbies in Lombard, IL has a pretty decent webstore and I was abe to find it cheaper than any other place. I am glad to save a few dollars, plus help out an old hobby store. Since it already has a DCC decoder already built in, it is all ready to go for the track.

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C&NW #928 EMD SD40 Locomotive

Well the last couple of days I have really been giving our USPS lady a workout, packages and packages arriving for my layout. I added another diesel freight locomotive to the roster with a KATO Chicago & North Western #928 SD40. This model I had purchased used through a Facebook Group and already equipped with DCC. The following is borrowed from Don’s Depot . 928 was built in September 1966, #32099, FN 7912-8, as CGW 408. It became C&NW 928 in 1968. It was retired on September 25, 1987 and sold to Washington Corporation in November 1989. It was rebuilt for Corporate Leasing Inc as 3001. It then became MRL 3001 and was later renumbered 220. It was later transferred to I&M Rail Link as 220 in 1997 and sold as Iowa Chicago & Eastern 220 in July 2002. It was retired in February 2007 and scrapped by Jabco Industrial in March 2007.

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Starting The Benchwork

I am not much of a woodworker and I knew cutting plywood and 1x4’s with my limited tools would be very tedious. So I needed to come up with another way to build my benchwork. I remembered back to one of my previous layout attempts and that I purchased a hollow door from store. That door back then was only 30” wide so I needed to see if could find one that is 36” wide. Sure enough my local Home Depot sells 36”Wx80”L for around $38.00, I thought that would work perfect and save me some time. So now the trackboard is set and I needed to think how I was going to wire the layout. Having the board sit right on top of the bar would not allow me to do my wiring underneath the board. I decided to purchase a 1x4 abd cut 4” blocks to use as legs. I figure the blocks just being used as legs my cuts do not have to be perfectly straight, a jigsaw would work. My next issue is my bar top is made of tile. I thought the wood block would probably easi...

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